August Meeting - Lightning Talks Wrap Up

It seems that Melbourne Alt.Net is travelling along very nicely. It has a great community spirit and a bunch of really passionate people with great ideas. And Wednesday's Lightning Talks session was no exception. Added to that is the great support we get from Oakton which is enabling us to evolve into a fantastic monthly event.

We had six presentations of 10 minutes (ok, maybe more like 15 - 20 minutes) each.  Where relevant I have included links to content and information related to each presentation.

1. Mark Trinder (@mtrinder) - MonoTouch


2. Andrew Browne (@adbrowne) - CouchDB replication and conflict detection.

• CouchDB Demo Source Code

3. Jimmy P. (@pjimmy) - My experiences as an agent of change.

• PowerPoint presentation
• Torrent file for NDC 2010 Sessions
• The Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference

4. Simon Le Serve - Complexity and Refactoring

• http://anarchy.net.au/ComputerScience/Essays/ComplexityAndRefactoring.htm

5. Tarn Barford (@tarnacious) - Composing events with RxJs

• http://static.sharpthinking.com.au/2010/rxjs-lightning-talk/index.html

6. David Burela (@DavidBurela) - Windows Phone 7 UI


A big thanks to all those who contributed to the talks. And for anyone who thought they might have liked to have presented something and weren't quite sure or just weren't ready with something, then we'll do another one in the near future no doubt.

Thanks also to David for filming the talks.
(link to Lightning Talk videos to follow when available)

Our next meeting will be our first six months of running the event believe it or not. Not quite birthday celebrations, but something to look forward to all the same.

August Meeting - Lightning Talks

The August 18th meeting will be our first lightning talks evening. The responses to do presentations has been great and looks to be an interesting mix of topics. So far we have:

1. Mark Trinder (@mtrinder) - MonoTouch
2. Andrew Browne (@adbrowne) - CouchDB replication and conflict detection.
3. Jimmy P. (@pjimmy) - My experiences as an agent of change.
4. David Burela (@DavidBurela) - A real world MEF application
5. Simon Le Serve - Complexity and Refactoring
6. Tarn Barford (@tarnacious) - Composing events with RxJs

Each presentation will run for 10 minutes and we'll leave time for questions as well as beer and pizza of course.

We probably have time for one more talk so if anyone else would like to present then just let me know at twitter @abienert or leave a comment here. We have a full agenda now. If you would have liked to present then I'm sure this won't be the last lightning talks evening.

Look forward to seeing you there and please don't forget to RSVP on the polling panel.